After the disputes over the leadership of the PJ and the controversial statements by Cristina Kirchner against Axel Kicillof, in which she referred to the latter as "Pontius Pilate" and "Judas" for supporting Quintela's candidacy, the president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, hopes to bring them together this Wednesday at the Teatro Argentino for the 47th anniversary of that association. "In La Plata, we will remember the Grandmothers' date at 8 PM, Cristina will come and Kicillof told me he will try to make it," Carlotto said in radio statements, while from the provincial governor's circle they told the Argentine News Agency that he will do his best to "be there" once he finishes his agenda in the district.
This meeting will be the first opportunity for Kicillof and Fernández de Kirchner to share a stage since the internal party conflict over the leadership of the PJ erupted, where Kirchnerism demands the Buenos Aires governor to explicitly support the former head of state in her party dispute with the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela.
In a reunion between Cristina and Axel, Kicillof had called for "unity" in Peronism and urged to stop "reproducing" the "methodologies and behaviors" that led the opposition space to defeat in last year's presidential elections. "Let's find unity and stop reproducing the methodologies and behaviors that brought us here," Kicillof expressed in a public letter responding to the questions from the faction of Peronism supporting the former president.
In the same document, the provincial governor referred to the figure of Fernández de Kirchner, who had accused him of being "Pontius Pilate" and a "Judas" for subtly backing Quintela's candidacy. "Cristina is in the heart of the people, also in mine, and I do not have to take an exam of that feeling," Kicillof emphasized about the former vice president.
Regarding the disagreements within the PJ, the governor stated that no one should expect that he will "wage an internal war; history would not forgive us, nor would the future." Meanwhile, Kicillof insisted that he does not want to "encourage fights among comrades," but he also cannot "validate the mistaken mechanism that any difference or criticism unleashes discipline."
